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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
I wonder if this is a book that parents will read in a different way than yuppie non-parents.
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I think you hit on the difference, although I don't discount the ability of those without kids to understand The Road.
In any event, your friend's analysis is dead wrong. Quite apart from not understanding the book, he clearly doesn't know the context in which McCarthy wrote the book, as a man who had a child, a son, in old age.
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